bile National Guard could add 400,000 more for defence. The term of service is now six years. The leading Generals are Marhsals McMahon, Niel, Forey and Ba zaine. The two first made their reputation in Italy, the third in the Crimea and Mexico, and the last in Mexico. 3. THE BRITISH ARMY is noted for the strength and discipline of the rank and file. Its two best arms are the infantry and cavalry, the latter being well mounted and formed of picked men. The army, generally, is noted for its courage. The system of drill is very different from that of the two armies already noticed. This variation consists chiefly in the use of a column "at quarter distance" (that is, quarter of a company) and the non use of a column by divisions (the French term for two companies united) which is the proper column of attack; and why the British do not use this column is not very clear, unless it is from their usual desire to be singular, and leaders rather than followers. They skirmish in files, which is better than the new mode of half files, or one rank, for the men of each file can cover each other by firing one at a time; The casualties can be filled by the rear rank without contracting the front of the line. quests. And so ripe of age and full of honours, with scarcely a wish left ungratified, he fell asleep. The Provostship is in the gift of the Crown, which usually selects for the high and important office one of the Senior Fellows, who must be a Doctor in Divinity. It is premature as yet to speak of his probable successor; but the Voice of the University pronounces two names as those worthy to fill the highest position within her precincts, Dr. Todd and Dr. Lloyd; both enjoy European reputa tions, and each in a different path have shed lustre on the University. We believe, however, that Dr. Todd will be selected for that eminent position to which his varied learning, his purity of life, his unostentatious benevolence, and his deep interest in everything connected with the antiquities and literature of his country eminently entitle him. No. 12.-WILLIAM DARGAN, ESQ. The battalion consists of eight "service companies," and four "depot companies," making the establishment 12 companies, only eight being sent to the field, thus assimilating to the French strength; (effectif) but the regiments of the line beyond the 25th, have only one battalion, as, if there were more they could not all be kept together, the army being scattered over a vast Empire, from Canada to Australia and New Zealand, (India and Ireland absorbing the largest body of troops.) he light battalions consist of eight rifle regiments, each of four bat-making provision for the effectual draining off of the surface water. talions, designated the "Rifle Brigade," and "60th Rifles;" the latter having been originally formed of Americans who adhered to the fortunes of the Crown in the war of independence, and who were styled the "60th or Loyal Americans," all of whom were taken by the French General Montcalm, and mostly massacred by the Iroquois Indians. These eight battalions are uniformed in dark green, which fits them better for service in Canada than the red of the line troops. Three of them-the 1st and 4th Rifle Brigade,, and 4th battalion Rifles are now serving in Canada. The system of guides is not used in the British drill, the covering sergeant doing the duty of a left guide as well as of a a right guide, which is awkward. The Brigade consists of three or four battalions, and is commanded by a Major-General. The division consists of six to eight battalions, and is directed by a Lieutenant-general. A British army very seldom assumes large enough proportions to be divided into corps. "General" is the next rank above that of a division commander, and "Field Marshal" is the highest rank. There is a strong leaning to copy the German armies rather than the French, the Royal Family being of English and German blood, and the males, therefore, having German proclivities. William Dargan, of whose death we have just been informed by telegraph, was the son of a farmer in the county of Carlow. Having received a fair English education, he was placed in a surveyor's of fice. He told a friend not long ago that he obtained the appointment of surveyor for his native county, but soon after resigned, from a feeling that he could never in that position be able to advance himself as he thought he should do if he were free to do the best he could with his talents. The first important employment he obtained was under Mr. Telford, in constructing the Holyhead road. He there learnt the true art of road making, then applied for the first time by his chief, the secret of which was raising the road in the middle that it might have something of the strength of an arch, and When that work was finished Mr. Dargan returned to Ireland and obtained several small contracts on his own account, the most important of which was the road from Dublin to Howth, which was then the principal harbor connected with Dublin. Soon after this he embarked in a career of enterprise, which, owing to the state of the country at that time, and the nature of the works which he achieved, will cause him to stand alone as a leader of industrial progress in the history of Ireland. Mr. Dargan was then a young man comparatively unknown, except to a circle of appreciating friends. He inspired them with his own confidence; a company was formed and he became the contractor of the first railway in Ireland-the Dublin and Kingstown line-a most prosperous undertaking, which has always paid better than any other line in the country. Canal conveyance was still in the ascendant; a company was formed for opening up the line of communication between Lough Erne and Belfast, and Mr. Dargan became the contractor of the Ulster Canal, which was regarded as a signal triumph of engineering and constructive ability. Other great works followed in rapid succession. Even the navvies looked up to him with gratitude as a public benefactor. He paid the highest wages, and paid punctually as the clock struck. So perfect was the organisation he effected, so firmly were all his arrangements carried out, and so justly and kindly did he deal with the people, that he was enabled to fulfil to the letter every one of the numerous engagements with which he had entered. The result was that he was held in the highest respect by the whole nation, his credit was unbounded, and, as he once said at a public meeting, he "realized very fast." At one time he was the largest railway proprietor in the country, and one of the greatest capitalists. The amount of business he got through was something marvellous. The secret of his success, as he once said himself, consisted in the selection of agents on whose capacity and integrity he could rely, and in whom he took care not to weaken the sense of responsibility by interfering with the details of their business, while his own energies were reserved for comprehensive views and general operations. When his mind was occupied with the arrangements of the Exhibition of 1853, he had in his hands contracts to the aggregate amount of nearly two millions sterling. To his personal character and inHe began by placing fluence that Exhibition was mainly due. 30,000 in the hands of the committees, and before it was opened in May, 1853, his advances reached nearly 100,000l., of which his loss amounted to 20,000l. After the Exhibition a public meeting was convened by the Lord Mayor, in compliance with a requisition Dr. MacDonell was remarkable for his chaste and exact scholar- signed by 2200 names. From this meeting resulted a suitable monship. He was one of the sound classical scholars of a school rapidly ument to Mr. Dargan-the Irish National Gallery, erected on departing from us. As Provost he was always accessible and cour- Leinster Lawn, with a fine bronze statue in front looking out on teous to the humblest or most junior student in the University. He Merrion-square. The Queen graciously honored Irish industry in took a deep interest in the progress of the alumni long after they the person of its great chief. Her Majesty offered him a title, had left the University, and his wishes followed them in their which he declined. She shook hands with him publicly at the openvaried paths of life. Living to an advanced age, he had the price-ing of the Exhibition, and with the Prince Consort paid a visit to less satisfaction of witnessing the merited advancement of his sons Mr. and Mrs. Dargan. Wishing to encourage the growth of flax, in their several professions. One, Sir Richard Graves MacDnoell, Mr. Dargan took a tract of Land in Clare or Kerry, which he deis Governor of Hong Kong; another is Dean of Cashel; a third voted to its culture; but owing to some mismanagement the enterHe also became a manufacturer, and holds the important position of Rector of Monkstown, and a fourth prise entailed a heavy loss. is Joint-Secretary to the Board of Charitable Donations and Be-set some mills working in the neighbourhood of Dublin. But that The strength of the British army, not including Colonial corps, is about 200,000 men. Term of service from ten years or for life. IX. Biographical Sketches. No. 11.-THE REV. DR. McDONELL. The late Provost obtained Scholarship in 1803, Fellowship on the first trial, and at the early age of 21, in the year 1808. He became professor of Oratory in 1816, and was co-opted as Senior Fellow November, 1836, having fulfilled the duties of a Fellow for nearly thirty years. He was appointed Provost, January 24th, 1852, and by a singular coincidence, died on the anniversary of his appointment. Attached to the University in which he had held so influential a position, he preferred to remain amidst the society he loved to the dignity of the Episcopate, offered to him by successive Governments. business did not prosper. His embarrasments however seem to have deeply affected his health and spirits, and brought on a disease to which his powerful constitution has succumbed. No. 13.-VICTOR COUSIN. France has lost Victor Cousin, the eminent metaphysical philoFopher. He was son of a watchmaker in Paris, and was born Nov. 28, 1792. He was for some time a tutor at the Ecole Normale, where he was subsequently professor of philosophy. In 1812 he published a translation of Plato in French, and in 1815 was appointed by Royer Collard to deliver lectures on the history of philosophy in the Faculté des Lettres of the University. As a philosophical teacher, Cousin was an Idealist and Platonist, then a follower of Kant and the critical school, then a follower successively of Proclus, the Scotch school, of Hegel and of Schelling. His chief works are "Philosophical Fragments" (1829), "A Course of Moral Philosophy" (6 vols. 1815-20), including the "History of Modern Philosophy," the "Sources of Ideas," and the Sensational, the Scotch, and the Critical schools; also "Studies of French Ladies and Society in the Seventeenth Century." He translated Tenneman's abridged "History of Philosophy," and edited the complete works of Abelard. No. 14.-INGRES, THE FRENCH PAINTER. In the death of Ingres, in consequence of a slight cold, French art sees the close of an important era. The last representative of the classical school, the school of David and Le Brun, dying at the age of 86, fought bravely almost to the very last in the cause of his favourite theories, and has left France filled with pictures which, while they prove his industry, his skill, his learning, prove also how little all these avail when the inspiration of genius is wanting. So difficult did he find it to win the hearts of his countrymen that he remained in Italy from 1816 to 1842, painting pictures which were as much admired in the land of his adoption as they were coldly received at home. Ingres stood for a school, for an idea, and in France no man can stand for sixty years for an idea without his meed of honour. In the great Exhibition of 1855 Ingres, by command, collected all his principal works from France and Italy and placed them in a room allotted to them alone. He received from the jury one of the great medals of honour-the other being given to his rival Delacroix, the founder and leader of the romantic school, the direct antipodes of his own. One of his last works is his best and perhaps will make his name known by its pure and delicate beauty, where it would otherwise have scarcely penetrated. This is "La Source," painted in 1861, when he was eighty years old.. It was in the Great Exhibition at Brompton, in 1862, and excited more interest and admiration, perhaps, than any one picture in that rich and varied collection. Ingres was made Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1841, Commander in 1845, and Grand Officer in 1855. He was raised to the dignity of Senator in 1862, and at the same time named member of the Imperial Council of Public Instruction. RECENT CANADIAN DEATHS. COLONEL DESALABERRY.-We very much regret to have to record the death of Lieut.-Col. DeSalaberry, Deputy Adjutant General of Militia for Lower Canada, which melancholy, though not unexpected, event took place yesterday. He was the son of the hero of Chateauguay-descended from a noble family of the Pays de Basques (Navarre.) He has been long known in connection with the highly important and respectable post which he has for so many years held, and his loss will be greatly felt by the Government. He was, in his office, ever diguified, courteous and approachable; and did much for the organization of the Militia, and especially of the Volunteer Force. He had been in declining health for some months past.-Montreal Daily News. MRS. MARY LEE, the widow of the late Wm. B. Lee, Esq., aged 74 years, died recently in the County of Brant. Mrs. Lee with her father, the late Capt. Amos Sturgis, her mother, grandfather and grandmother, together with three brothers and one sister, emigrated from the state of Pennsylvania and arrived in Canada at Fort Erie, October, 1st., in the year 1800, and settled on the Mount Pleasant Tract in 1802. Her father and the late Henry Ellis, with their families, being the first settlers on that tract of land laid out by the late Captain Joseph Brant, comprising 4000 acres, and then called the Mount Pleasant Settlement. The Six Nation Indians being the then undisputed occupants or owners of what was then called the valley of the Grand River, commencing at what was then called the forks of the river where the Town of Paris now stands, and taking a breadth of 12 miles wide down the river to its mouth, where it empties its waters into those of Lake Erie. Mrs. Lee had a good hope of a glorious immortality and eternal life. Her only sister, In many parts of the country, birds seem to be decreasing from year to year. Many farmers believe that birds are of no service, but rather an injury to crops. The rising generation are delighted to find some mark at which to exercise their shooting talent, and so the birds are slaughtered out of mere sport. It is a question whether the country is not greatly the loser by this wantonness. The number of insects hurtful to vegetation, which birds destroy during the year, is immense. They do inestimable service in orchards and gardens in ridding us of bugs and vermin, which, if left to breed and accumulate, would often destroy whole crops. The amount of damage which birds do is very small. They may, it is true, pick a kernel here or there from the grain crops, but this ought not to be begrudged to such indefatigable workers, while cleaning the fields of innumerable enemies to vegetation. While in England, going upon the farms, we could not but note the difference between the greater number of birds and kinds of game there than are found upon farms in New York. The hedges afford nice and cozy places for breeding, and during the breeding season they are not cut or trimmed, in order to protect the birds. The game laws are strict, and of course much of this protection grows out of these laws, which are made to afford game for the nobility during the shooting season. But hard as it may appear to exclude those who till the soil from their share in these sports, it is a question whether the latter do not reap an advantage in having their crops better cleared of insects by the birds. Many farmers there assured us that the birds themselves were a benefit rather than an injury, but they complained that sometimes the huntsmen, during the hunting, commit depredations. Recently State laws have been enacted protecting birds during the breeding season, but they are scarcely observed, and the opinion of farmers generally, we think, is against birds as in any way useful. It is a serious mistake, and one from which we shall be likely to suffer, if greater care be not taken in their protection.-Utica Herald. 2. BIRDS OF THE SEASON. On Wednesday, the 3rd. of April, for the first time, early spring birds were seen in the city. The little grey bird (the Rossignol) which enlivens the spring with its sweet notes, the robin, and the black-bird, were twittering each in its own way in the early morn, to tell us they had come back again.-Kingston News. 3. SINGULAR BIRDS IN AFRICA. Some curious birds were encountered by Dr. Livingstone in his travels in Southern Africa. One of them is called the "honey guide." Instinct seems to have taught it that all men, white or black, are fond of honey, and the instant one of them gets a glimpse of a man he hastens to greet him with an invitation to come to a beehive and take some honey. He flies in the proper direction and perches on a tree, and looks back to see if the man is following; then on to another and another, till the spot is reached. If the first invitation is not accepted, he follows with pressing importuni ties, quite as anxious to lure the stranger to the bee's hive as other birds are to draw him away from their own nests. It never deceives, but always leads the way to some hive. Equally remarkable in its intelligence is the bird that guards the buffalo and rhinoceros. The grass is so often dense and tall that one could go close up to these animals quite unperceived; but the guardian bird, sitting on the beast, sees the approach of danger, flaps its wings and screams, which causes its bulky charge to rush off from a foe he has neither seen or heard. For his reward the vigilant little watcher has the pick of the parasites of his fat friend. XI. Friday School Readings.* 1. THE EARTH WAKED FROM WINTER'S SLEEP. A POETICAL LITTLE gem. Earth, like a child in bed, Lay still in wintry sleep, not long ago; But spring came like a nurse, with noiseless tread, And drawing off the coverlet of snow, Stooped down and kissed her brow Softly, again, again, till Earth awoke, And opening violet eyes, looked up to know Whose touch it was that thus her slumber broke. And straightway knowing spring, the world not give for such a work by Queen Mary or Queen Eliza- 3. ENTRY OF VICTOR EMMANUEL INTO VENICE. The following graphic account of the entry of the King of Italy into Venice is taken from the Military correspondence of the London Times. We have deferred it for want of room. 4. COMMERCIAL VALUE OF INSECTS. If the boats and their rowers were richly decorated to welcome the troops, they were doubly so now, and with the gay flags, bloomGreat Britain pays annually $1,000,000,000 for carcasses of that ing tapestries, and silks or carpets dyed with deeper hues, formed a tiny insect known as cochineal; while another, also peculiar to In-perfect feast of color; only the sun and the blue sky were wanting dia, gum shellac, or rather its production, is scarcely less valuable. to bring out the full gorgeousness of the effect. At about 11:20 More than 1,500,000 human beings derive their sole support from a. m. the sound of cannon, muffled by the heavy air, told that the the culture and manufacture of the fibres spun by the silk worm king had arrived at the railway station. Every thing went well of which the annual circulation medium is said to be $200,000,000. there according to arrangement, and soon the official gondolas, foreIn England alone, to say nothing of the other parts of Europe, runners of the advancing Majesty, dashed past to see that all was $500,000 are spent every year in the purchase of honey, while the clear. value of that which is native is not mentioned, and this is the work Then came up through the mist the royal barge, brilliant with of the bee. Besides all this, there are gall-nuts, used for dying and creamy white and golden blazonry. The men who urged it along making ink; cantharides, or Spanish-fly, used in medicine. In fact were clad in all that fancy could devise to add to the richness of the'. every insect is contributing in some way, directly or indirectly, in spectacle-jackets of blue and silver, with knots of scarlet ribbon, swelling our commercial profits. their pantaloons fitting close to the shapely limbs, showing each ridge and furrow of the twisted muscles as they strained forward at the oar, and marking every undulation of the gondolier's graceful movement. The canopy was of crimson velvet, supported by golden poles, and stooping over from the poop was a female figure, Italy, perhaps, clad also with golden garments, and seeming about to place the laurel wreath which she held upon the head of the occupant below. The national flag, bearing in its centre the white cross of Savoy, floated over the whole. There were cries enough of delight now from the quays, but it was not the crimson, nor the gold, nor the white, that attracted the attention of the crowd and drew such wild cheers from their hearts and lips. Just in front, where the parted curtains hung in heavy folds, was a plain featured man in a general's uniform standing erect, with bare head, before them, But they knew that he was an honest man, and that the uniform of the general had ere now been soiled with the dust and smoke of battle, in fulfilling his father's legacy and striving for the indepenpendence and unity of Italy. There was no mistaking the broad, straightforward countenance, the determined jaw and heavy moustache so familiar to them in every room of their houses and every corner of their streets. They saw at last among them the King whom they had called to be their sovereign, and they shouted for Victor Emmanuel, the man who is true to his word. There must have been old men present who had seen the entrance of the great Napoleon, and had shouted for him as boys and men will shout before a conqueror: but he came as a conqueror, with banners and trumpets and soldiers and bayonets; while the King of Italy was attended to-day by a small group of his family and ministers. His body guards were the men who had so long stretched out their 2. THE QUEEN'S FORTHCOMING BOOK. hands to him for help, his defence against treachery the hearts of The Queen, says a London correspondent, has written a work, his people. Though the barge was shapely and the rowers strong entitled "Leaves from a Journal in the Highlands," which consists and well-trained, it moved but slowly down the canal, for the pri of about forty papers, descriptive of her life at Balmoral and the vate gondolas took possession of it, and it became the centre of a neighborhood. The work is illustrated by photographs and wood jostling, good humored crowd, which showed much warmth of heart cuts from Her Majesty's sketches. It contains, among other inter- to the person of the King. Before the cortege arrived at the Rialto esting matter, three long accounts of her incognito journeys made the oars of his boat were encumbered with those of the mannerby the Prince Consort and herself to different parts of Scotland, and looking black gondolas, and the stately barge had to be taken in the adventures which they met with. In one of the papers she One must see such a crowd of gondolas before comprehending gives an account of the preaching of Dr. Norman McLeod, of Glas- the niceties of steering of which they are capable, and the delight, gow, and after stating how astonished she was that any one could amounting almost to a passion, of the gondoliers in their managepreach "so eloquently and touchingly without notes," she adds, ment of their favorites. More than once the crush was so great "and then he prayed so kindly for me and the prince in the after that there was almost a stoppage, but never did good humor fail prayer that I was deeply touched; but when he invoked God's for a moment, and the few seconds of enforced idleness were spent blessing on the children, I felt a great lump in my throat." in throwing about prints of the chosen of the people rolled into had not expected to be prayed for so kindly by a Presbyterian, and scrolls and tied with ribbon. least of all did she expect him to remember the children. I think At last the joyful, crowding, crushing minutes, so near at times there is something touching in this simple note of the queen-wife and yet so far from royalty, were over, the brilliant barge reached and mother, which shows how true a woman she is. Only forty the place opposite the Ducal Palace where doges and Princes have copies of the work have been printed for special friends and favor-landed from time immemorial, the King disembarked among the ites, but sooner or later it will of course be reprinted, and will be a shouts of the populace, and the cheers of the well-dressed crowds most interesting addition to contemporary literature. What would that filled every available spot in or on the Ducal Palace, walking on a carpet prepared for his honor, yet so unnecessary on that * NOTE TO TEACHERS.-FRIDAY READINGS FROM THE JOURNAL.-Our Chief polished marble floor, toward the church of St. Mark. Entering motive in maintaining the "Miscellaneous" department of the Journal is there, he placed himself in the dim twilight under the canopy preto furnish teachers with choice articles selected from the current literature pared for Napoleon 58 years ago, and heard the solemn Te Deum of the day, to he read in the schools on Fridays, when the week's school- laudamus, which has been sung from old times to consecrate deeds work is finished, as a means of agreeable recreation to both pupil and both good and bad. After the service, issuing from the door into teacher. Several teachers have followed this plan for several years with the square, he walked rapidly between the two ranks of men, remost gratifying success. ceiving fervid cheers as he passed along, and entered the palace Spring washed her first with showers, Then dressed her in a robe of tender green, And lastly filled her lap with fresh bright flowers; And Earth forgot how sleepy she had been. She tow. outside, while the crowd waited patiently for his appearance and The Queen, too, who from the first, had delighted in her husgreeted the opening of each window as staff and officials made their band's happy thought, declared her gracious purpose to open the appearance on the balconies. While waiting, the crowd responded exhibition in royal State. See her, then, advancing between long gladly to a stentorian voice heard at intervals in the square, crying, lines of nobles and noble ladies, soldiers and counsellors, to her "Viva Vittorio Emmanuel!" "Viva il Re Galantuomo!" Over throne in the transept; see her look round upon the vast assembly and over again there were false hopes and uncertain cheers; but with clear eye, and tone as yet untouched by care, clad in a rose presently a sort of moan of joy swept through the people as first one brocade, her jewelled head glittering in the brilliant sunbeams like here and there, and afterward the whole crowd caught sight of him an answering sun; hear her full round tones of English welcome to standing alone at a window of his own palace at last. Never has a the world; hear the blare of trumpet and burst of bugle and roll of deeper or truer cry been heard in the Piazzi di San Marco than now drum that drown the applauding shouts of the crowd, as with Queenbroke from the trembling lips of the multitude. Some mingled ly salutation to all beholders she declares the Exhibition opened. their cheers with "Benedetta Italia!" Some shed tears, and many Next the Throne stands old Wellington, who closes his 82nd year, of the women laughed hysterically. The King gravely bowed and a mark for all English eyes; and near the throne also stands the soon retired. The marching past of the troops, if such had been Minister of China, serene, unctuous, with careful and prolonged intended, was rendered impossible; but they filed through the pig-tail and embroidered robes of your true peacock splendor, plaincrowd as best they might, passing under the one window of interest,ly a man of consequence, and, as such, saluted with respect by all their bands playing the "Marsia Reale," and so went outside, where the other mighty Ministers and men of state, until one of them, they broke off, and returned to swell the crowd soon after. sharper-eyed than the rest, bethinks him that there is no Chinese But the people had not had enough of him yet. They remained Embassador, and, first dimly, then plainly, remembers this face as still gazing up and waiting to see him again, till at length he com-that of the greasy, opium-sleek countenance of the showman of the plied with their request, appeared at the open window, was again Chinese Junk moored in the Thames, just then, a famous pennylustily cheered, and this time when he retired the window was shut, show in London." and the crowd began to disperse. But as they turned their eyes from the one point of attraction they saw another open window, and a slight, worn-faced man, in plain black suit, standing on the balcony talking to an official all covered over with gold and lace. Somebody whispered "Ricasoli," and the warm greetings sent lately from Florence came to their remembrance. The minister is deservedly popular at present, and soon learned that he is so from the lips of the Venetians. Succeeding Cavour, at the request of the latter, it is said, Ricasoli also has aimed straight at the mark, and is one whom the Italians know they can trust. To go from the square to the church is a natural inclination, and for a long time a stream of people flowed in and out of the sevenfold golden portals. Within many knelt, men as well as women, to offer thanks for the happiness bestowed upon them; but most walked round the church, returning by another door. This evening there have been grand illuminations, but the thick fog prevented their full effect, except for an hour after 10 o'clock, when for a while the air cleared, and the water shaken by ever-passing boats flickered in millions of golden wavelets. But time fails to describe the glorious scene, and it must be enough for the present that the long wishedfor day has passed, the invited ruler has come to his people, and been received with marks of love and enthusiasm, because they believed that he has saved and never will betray them. Such has been the welcome of the Ré Galantuomo, the King who keeps his word. 4. GREAT EXHIBITIONS. Now that the Great Exhibition of 1867, has been opened, a few facts relative to the principal World's Fairs which have preceded it will be interesting. The next Exhibition of the world's industrial products took place at Dublin in 1853. It was erected at the sole expense of Mr. Wm. Dargan an eminent Irish Engineer. The cost was upwards of £50,000, but it is said that he made money by the transaction in the end, or at all events realized sufficient to repay its outlay.-The Exhibition building consisted of a central hall 425 feet long and 100 feet high covered by a semi-circular roof in a single span of 100 feet. Parallel with the main hall, and communicating with it by arched openings, where two side halls or aisles each 100 feet in width and 65 feet high.-Each of these side halls were divided into three by a nave 50 feet wide, and aisles of 25 feet. Thus the outside dimensions of the building were 425ft. by 200. It was opened May 12, 1852, and was closed in October by the Queen and Prince Albert, on which occasion Mr. Cusack Patrick Rooney, the Secretary of the Exhibition, was made a Knight, and as "Sir Cusack," &c., retired gracefully into private life; Mr. Dargan, having been offered the same dignity, respectfully declined the responsibility of so much additional honor, and remained plain Mr. Dargan until his death, which took place early in last February. In the same year an exhibition of the same kind was inaugurated at New York, which, however, proved in most respects to be a failure. In 1855, a great Exhibition took place in Paris, which was attended with remarkable success. In 1857 the Manchester Exhibition of Fine Arts was opened by her Majesty in person, and such a display of rich and precious works of art was made as the world has hardly ever seen. No country in the world is so rich in private collections of paintings and statuary as England, and the owners of the rarest and most beautiful works of art contributed them to the Exhibition with the utmost generosity. Even the New York Tribune, alluding to the private collections of artistic productions in England is compelled to say: "From the Queen down, whoever owns any fine work of exclusive right to its enjoyment. It adds greatly to the pleasure of visiting England that this generous and noble spirit exists, and we always hear with pleasure that this or that valuable picture in changing hands has found its way into an English gallery or parlor, for then we may hope some day to see it. We do not believe there is in all England a man of wealth who has the spirit of a certain There can be no exhibition like that of 1851, for there can never well known New Yorker, who, owning some particularly fine picbe the same absorbing interests attending any other which were tures and manuscripts of great rarity, takes a foolish pride in making excited by that, the first. There was nothing wonderful about the himself notorious by denying the sight of them not only to strangers, architectural design of Mr. Paxton, which was indeed nothing more however introduced, but even to his intimate friends, and, better than one of his employer's great graperies magnified. The building still, to his own immediate relatives. There is a pretty tale going rose swiftly after it was once commenced by Messrs. Fox and about that no less a person than Mr. Prescott, when he was writing Henderson, the contractors. Its cost was £200,000, the sale of one of his books connected with Spanish history, wrote to this season tickets brought £50,000, and the sum of £80,000 was sub-public-spirited gentleman and requested permission to consult a scribed before the building was commenced. It was on the 16th of very rare MS. in his possession, but received the suave reply, that May that the World's first Exhibition was opened, and in the poet's he had bought the MS. for his own use, and not for that of other words it was in all respects, one of the charmed days when the people.' There may be instances of such churlishness in England, genius of God doth flow." As described in one of the leading but they are covered out of sight by the multitude of bright exjournals of the day: amples of a broader and more enlightened spirit." The Manchester Exhibition of 1857 was a bright instance of this spirit. When the shock of the wide spread revolutions of 1848-9 was dying out throughout Europe, the idea of the first Great Interna-art seems to consider himself as its guardian only, and as having no tional Exhibition was first conceived. Never could it have been introduced more happily, for the interchange of national feeling which was awakened, the new and peaceful contest which it created and the industries which it encouraged served to divert the attention of men from the bloody tragedies which were of so recent date, and directed their thoughts into new and tranquil channels. "A splendid sunshine and soft air filled all the hollow of the sky, and every man who had feet to walk with or friends to carry him, The success of the London Exhibition in 1862 was somewhat made his way to share in the pageant. The ocean and the channel marred by the untimely death of the Prince Consort, who had been swarmed with ships; bird's eye views of the planet showed dark the prime originator and leading spirit in the carrying out of the lines of traveller's streaming from every point of the compass to work. The building was at Kensington and covered 24 acres of London, and in London all the streets leading to one shining point, ground. For the value and interest of its contents there can be no a crystal ball rolling on the grass of Hyde Park, a gigantic dew-doubt that the Exhibition of 1862 far exceeded all others. The drop, or bubble fallen, could it be, from the stars, and inclosing in its many-colored, sparkling sphere, men, women, children, grass, fountains, and flowers, and even the tallest trees. picture gallery was especially splendid. The immense progress made by France and Britain since the first Exhibition in all branches of art as well as manufactures was the theme of universal wonder -- and comment. The United States at that time was torn by civil the study of Modern languages, book-keeping, &c., is substituted for that strife, and could not therefore be expected to contribute much. of Latin, Verse, and Greek. The services of a Matron as well as of a In point of size the Paris Exhibition of the present year exceeds Master in holy orders are being secured. The School opens on May 1st., them all, and in many respects differs from those which have pre- next. The school is beautifully situated on the Bay of Quinte, at Picton. ceded it. A correspondent in an English paper says: "The programme of the plans includes a concentration in the Champ de-The building cost $20,000, and is fitted with all modern improvements, Mars, in the building, and the park surrounding it, of everything &e. There are 100 acres of land attached. There will be a library, connected with the material life of the races that inhabit the globe. cricket field, gymnasium, and play-ground; good bathing, and skating, In the building itself we are to have the raw materials and manu- boating and fishing. Application for admission to be made to the Head factured goods, useful and ornamental as in former exhibitions, with Master, or the Bursar, Picton, C. W., or to the Rev. T. A. Parnell, Kingston. many details peculiar to this one; but in the surrounding park will be found the feature of most striking interest-the Ethnological Department, as it may be called. Here we are to see the people of remote countries living as far as may be, as they live at home, eating, drinking, working and talking, dressed as if at home, and trying to persuade themselves that they are so.-We are to have real Russians in real Russian peasant houses, built by themselves of Russian timber; real Moors, dressed in their native dress, and living in houses decorated by their own hands after their native designs, (the last illustrated News showed them to us, paint pot in Echo. hand painting away at wall and wainscott); Japan is to be there, and China, with all their quaint array of bamboo houses, bamboofurniture, bamboo-everything that isn't made of paper; eating rice and smoking opium, and compounding delicate dishes' of rat and puppy, and birds' nest for capricious Western appetites." In glancing at the principal International Exhibitions which have taken place, we have of course omitted to make mention of the great Sydenham Palace, which is a fixture and which in beauty and extent far exceeds all the rest.-Hamilton Spectator. XII. Literary and Scientific Intelligen ce DR. CANIFF'S "BAY OF QUINTE."-"A History of the Bay of Quinte," by William Caniff, M.D., M.R.C.S., England, of Belleville, is shortly to be published. The object of the work is to supply an account of the settlement of this section of Upper Canada, which was, indeed, the first spot occupied by the United Empire Loyalists who planted the colony. At the present period of the history of British North America, an authentic history of this kind cannot fail to be exceedingly valuable and interesting. Dr. Caniff is a descendant of those of whom he writes, and a native of the Bay. He has, for a considerable time past, been gradually collecting the material for this work. HURON COLLEGE.-It is understood that the Rev. W. Wickes, M.A., [late Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng..] has entered upon his duties as Principal and Divinity Professor of Huron College, succeeding Dean Hellmuth in those positions. The London Free Press says: We feel sure that the community in general in this diocese will wish him abundant success, and that the important institution of which he has the charge may grow to become powerful for good in the western portion of the province. KNOX COLLEGE.-The services in connection with the closing of the term of Knox College, took place on 3rd. inst. The exercises began by singing a portion of a psalm, and prayer by Rev. Dr. Ormiston. The Principal of the College, the Rev. Dr. Willis, then delivered an interesting address on the history of the College, which he traced from its found ation, but especially from the time of his first connection with the insti tution in 1847 to the present time. The Principal dwelt on the benefits which Knox College had conferred on the country since its foundation, and the prominent position which many of its students have since taken, not only in this but in other countries. The Reverend Principal, in stating that he was then twenty years connected with the institution, felt himself called upon to enter at greater length than usual into the history of the institution, and the effect of its teachings on the Church and country. Before doing so, however, he reported the more immediate results of the work of the session that had just closed-which, as appeared from his statement, were exceedingly gratifying and favourable. The numbers in the classes exceeded the average; and those eurolled as prospective students, or students in the preparatory course, were increasing, especially those attending the class at University College. The reverend gentleman referred to the fact so generally mourned over-that the candidates for the University were usually fewer than the needs of the Church called for, and held that the state of their College gave cause for thanks and for terian Church, presented at the last Synod, gave proof of the extending taking courage. Statistical reports of the schemes of the Canada Presbyinfluence of the Church throughout the Province, and of the confidence which the congregations reposed in the College, as evinced by their in ECCE HOMO.-The curiosity of the literary world to ascertain the authorship of that semarkable book, “Ecce Homo," has at last been gratified. The London Spectator announces his name as Mr. Seeley, Professor of Latin in the London University, and son of Mr. Seeley, the Low Church publisher of Fleet street, himself also an author of some celebrity. Profes-creased contributions, which corresponded with the advancing social pros sor Seeley was a Cambridge Medalist in 1857. MODEL OF A FRENCH CANADIAN VILLAGE.-The College of St. Anne, at the request of J. C. Taché, deputy Minister of Agriculture, has prepared, in relief, an accurate plan of the village, with the church and college, to be sent to the Paris Exposition. This is a good idea. Perhaps Upper Canada would get up for the same exposition a back-woods village, with the stumps in the streets and gardens, and the inevitable store, mill, blacksmith's shop, and school-house.-Montreal Witness. XIII. Educational Jutelligence. ONTARIO COLLEGE, PICTON, U.C.-Master: F. C. Emberson, Esq., B.A, Oxon. Fellows: 1. Claude Long, Esq., B. A., Exeter College, Oxon; 2. A University Graduate in Holy Orders. Professor of French, M De St. Remy. Professor of Drawing, George Ackerman, Esq. Teacher of Drilling and Fencing, Mr. T. O'Brien. Bursar, Captain Downes. Fees per term, inclusive Tuition, $16; Board, $52. Extras, Drawing, $5 German, $5; Music, $7.50. The year is divided into three terms; the total cost per annum, including stationery, &c., will be $204. Brothers, each $180. Sons of Clergy, do. Arrangements have been made whereby the pupils may take the double journey from and to Picton by Rail or Steamboat at a single fare. The object of this school is to train boys for the Universities, the Civil Service, Army, &c., so that they may compete, without disadvantage, with those educated in England. The system emulated will be that perfected by Dr. Arnold, at Rugby. All pupils will be expected to attend morning and evening prayers, but no religious test will be required in order to admission to the school. The upper forms are separated into two divisions, the Classical and the Modern. In the latter perity of the country. He then paid a high tribute to his venerable colleague, the Rev. Dr. Burns, as having been so actively concerned in laying the foundation of the College, 22 years ago, and as having by his activity and zeal secured from parts abroad such a large accession to the stock of books in the library of the institution. These walls, said the Principal, it they could speak, would confess that nearly half of the whole library was due to his veteran colleague's indefatigable labours in behalf of this branch of the College. The speaker then referred to the early exertions of Professor Rintoul and Professor Esson, as having been the earliest labourers in the institution, and next made reference to his own acceptance of the Theological Chair in the winter of 1847. Looking at the period that had since elapsed-two decades-he proceeded to speak of those who, after doing their duty here, had gone to their heavenly reward, and of others who were still labouring effectively in other countries, benefitting their fellow men by the instruction received in Knox College. They could find in the present lists of the Canada Presbyterian Church, that between 100 or 125 of their pastors were educated at the College, including some who had received part of their training at the sister hall now identified with their own-that of the United Presbyterian body. It was truly pleasant to look at these labourers occupying so many posts all over the country, from Metis to Sarnia, bearing aloft the standard of the Gospel, and bringing the influence of sound doctrine, missionary zeal, and high morality to bear on their fellow-countrymen, especially in the many sequestered portions of the country where the forest had but recently yielded to the feller's axe; or localities which had not long ago been the hunting grounds of the Indian-congregating scattered families, comforting the emigrant stranger, and establishing the ordinances of the Sabbath and habits of Sabbath observance where they would otherwise have been disregarded. |